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Full Idea
Two explanations came forward in the neo-Darwinian synthesis. Altruism is either 1) person-based reciprocal altruism, or 2) gene-based kin altruism.
Gist of Idea
For Darwinians, altruism is either contracts or genetics
Source
Owen Flanagan (The Really Hard Problem [2007], 2 'Darwin')
Book Ref
Flanagan,Owen: 'The Really Hard Problem' [MIT 2007], p.47
A Reaction
Flanagan obviously thinks there is also 'genuine psychological atruism'. Presumably we don't explain mathematics or music or the desire to travel as either contracts or genetics, so we have other explanations available.
| 21830 | For Darwinians, altruism is either contracts or genetics [Flanagan] |
| 21831 | Alienation is not finding what one wants, or being unable to achieve it [Flanagan] |
| 21832 | Buddhists reject God and the self, and accept suffering as key, and liberation through wisdom [Flanagan] |
| 21833 | Research suggest that we overrate conscious experience [Flanagan] |
| 21834 | Sensations may be identical to brain events, but complex mental events don't seem to be [Flanagan] |
| 21837 | Morality is normative because it identifies best practices among the normal practices [Flanagan] |
| 21835 | We need Eudaimonics - the empirical study of how we should flourish [Flanagan] |